Lannan Foundation

Adrienne Rich received the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. Born in 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland, she has written more than sixteen books of poetry, including Midnight Salvage, Dark Fields of the Republic, and An Atlas of the Difficult World. Her essay collections include What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics; Blood, Bread, and Poetry; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence; and Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. While in residence Ms. Rich worked on a group of new poems.

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Eavan Boland explores the relationship between gender, art, and national identity in her work. She was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1944 and educated in London, New York and Dublin. Her most recent book of poetry, Against Love Poems, concerns marriage and "the stoicism of dailyness" she explains. Of writing poetry she says,"I don't write a poem to express an experience. I write it to experience the experience." Boland first read for the Readings & Conversations series in 1994 and was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry that year. A regular reviewer for the Irish Times, she has been a professor of English at Stanford University since 1995, and serves as the Director of Stanford’s Creative Writing Center.

Eavan Boland Bio and Cross Links